Word: stampedes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The "letters to the editor" page could be turned into a forum for ideas which are rarely reported or debated in the press, but which probably carry a greater impact than many of the front page stories. Instead of vital debate on important issues these pages are filled with the...
Delay & "Democracy." Nor was there any hint of change in Soviet policies. The session rubber-stamped a proposal originally made by Brezhnev that the regime be "democratized" by increasing the number of the Supreme Soviet's standing committees from three to nine-which in substance meant nothing. Kosygin revealed...
Survivors at the Banquet. Over the past three decades, the concept of the middle years has vastly changed. In 1932, Walter B. Pitkin wrote Life Begins at Forty and it became an overnight inspirational bestseller, precisely because people thought life ended at 40 and there was nothing left to do...
Ringing Phone. From the other side, the rumbles were not peacelike. Sounding more bellicose than ever, Peking continued attacking the U.S. bombing, stopping just short of promising to send troops to Viet Nam. The Warsaw Pact countries rubber-stamped a resolution condemning the latest U.S. actions as "a new and...
Keeping Track. The bulk wine arrives from southern France in barges or 40-tank-car trains, rests eight days in 1,000,000-liter tanks to let the sediment settle, then streams through stainless-steel mains to sterilized, electronically inspected bottles. They are automatically topped (with plastic and metal, not...